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A vignette from today: middle daughter is an adequate pianist - currently working on grade 3. Her piano teacher entered her into a music festival in Cheshire. We arrived at the allotted time for Year… (View Post)

I was in a conversation about this yesterday. Similarly - very premature babies are now routinely kept alive when previously we wouldn't have been able to, at great expense. Sadly many of those babie… (View Post)

A couple of surprisingly Reformy snippets today: 1) At our local impeccably Guardianista primary school, an (actually pretty middle class) mum reporting sadly on her visit to one of the outstanding l… (View Post)

Getting old may be shit - but as I edge reluctantly into my 50s, my list of not-quite-functioning body parts getting ever lengthier, I conclude that I am happier than I have ever been in life. Which … (View Post)

My 2009 Ford Focus gets approximately £200 a year spent on maintenance. It has been astonishing reliably and remarkably cheap to run. I'm in the market for an electric car when it dies, but it shows … (View Post)